Quotes About Insight

Being an investment banker has given me a front row seat at the center of innovation

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

A system administrator sometimes needs to be a business-process consultant, corporate visionary, janitor, software engineer, electrical engineer, economist, psychiatrist, mindreader, and, occasionally, bartender. As

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Ask not, who hath said this or that, but look to what he says.

If, with a single glance, you could see everything in the world spread out before your eyes, how fruitless a sight that would be! Raise your eyes to God on high and pray for your sins and deficiencies.

All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written.

given to thee. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth;

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling and whimsical, it may make an excellent motto for an essay. But few, indeed, of the many wise apophthegms which have been uttered from the time of the Seven Sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard have prevented a single foolish action.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially.

The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more fairer and firmer impression is made upon his heart by truth.

You are wise, and know how to apply it.

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.